“Death March” seminar in Rome

I’m here in Rome this week, presenting a two-day seminar on  “Managing Death-March Projects” for Technology Transfer Institute. You should be there so you can hear whatever clever jokes may occur to me while I’m presenting my material, as well as the comments and questions from the other participants. But if you’re stuck in some [...]

New Jersey Software Process Symposium

I’m giving a keynote address at the New Jersey Software Process Symposium on October 14th … somewhere in the wilderness of New Jersey. (All I know is that I’ve checked in at the New Brunswick Hyatt Regency hotel on the evening of the 13th, in the midst of pitch-black darkness all around, and I’ve got [...]

Agile presentation in Moscow

I’m giving a presentation on “User reactions to XP/Agile development” to the Agile Development group in Moscow this evening. You’ve got to actually be there (wherever “there” is; hopefully I’ll find out in time!) to hear the additional commentary, comments, jokes, and explanations. But if you’d like to download the 2.7-megabyte PDF file for the [...]

Michael Mah: offshore-developed software projects have 2.8X as many bugs as average software projects

Don’t shoot the messenger, okay? I didn’t generate these sobering statistics myself, and while there’s an underlying rationale that makes sense to me, I haven’t had a chance to personally validate them. If you want more details, you should contact Michael Mah himself; I’ll provide more details on who he is, and where he got [...]

New York City SPIN meeting tonight

I plan on attending tonight’s monthly meeting of the New York City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) tonight, where Michael Mah will be speaking on “Extreme Programming (XP) and Productivity Measurement.” For details and directions, see the NYC SPIN website here. Michael is a great speaker, and the topic is an interesting one; among other [...]